Job 18
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said:
| ויען בלדד השחי ויאמר׃ |
2 How long will ye lay snares for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
| עד אנה תשימון קנצי למלין תבינו ואחר נדבר׃ |
3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed dull in your sight?
| מדוע נחשבנו כבהמה נטמינו בעיניכם׃ |
4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
| טרף נפשו באפו הלמענך תעזב ארץ ויעתק צור ממקמו׃ |
5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
| גם אור רשעים ידעך ולא יגה שביב אשו׃ |
6 The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.
| אור חשך באהלו ונרו עליו ידעך׃ |
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
| יצרו צעדי אונו ותשליכהו עצתו׃ |
8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.
| כי שלח ברשת ברגליו ועל שבכה יתהלך׃ |
9 A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
| יאחז בעקב פח יחזק עליו צמים׃ |
10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
| טמון בארץ חבלו ומלכדתו עלי נתיב׃ |
11 Terrors shall overwhelm him on every side, and shall entrap him at his feet.
| סביב בעתהו בלהות והפיצהו לרגליו׃ |
12 His trouble shall be ravenous, and calamity shall be ready for his fall.
| יהי רעב אנו ואיד נכון לצלעו׃ |
13 It shall devour the members of his body, yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.
| יאכל בדי עורו יאכל בדיו בכור מות׃ |
14 That wherein he trusteth shall be plucked out of his tent; and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
| ינתק מאהלו מבטחו ותצעדהו למלך בלהות׃ |
15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his; brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
| תשכון באהלו מבלי לו יזרה על נוהו גפרית׃ |
16 His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.
| מתחת שרשיו יבשו וממעל ימל קצירו׃ |
17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name abroad.
| זכרו אבד מני ארץ ולא שם לו על פני חוץ׃ |
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
| יהדפהו מאור אל חשך ומתבל ינדהו׃ |
19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
| לא נין לו ולא נכד בעמו ואין שריד במגוריו׃ |
20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.
| על יומו נשמו אחרנים וקדמנים אחזו שער׃ |
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
| אך אלה משכנות עול וזה מקום לא ידע אל׃ |
